Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

Enlightenment is not a rocket science, it is the pure awareness of something deep within you that is ageless, formless and undefinable.

Doubt treats God’s Word as human advice—but we should see doubt as a reminder of our need to pray.

What's in a view? The world, by any other, would remain just as it is, just as wonderful :-)

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Hatred is internal calamity that destroys the keeper

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.